Putting A well known record dealer on blast!!
shooterali
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Ya or Nay, All this talk about set sale sellers what about well known record dealers on the east coast,westcoast,south, mid-west or shop owners...I was about to..but this person has hooked me up until I started buying shit they were too lazy to grade properly and over charge for shit because they didn't make they rent last month. SS, give your thoughts and stories.
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If you've tried your best to make things amenable between yourself and this dealer and in your opinion they have done nothing to make the situation better (I am talking phone calls, etc), then I guess you have every right to put them on blast.
But if you are just being lazy, haven't properly addressed the situation with the dealer (I am talking phone calls, etc), then you're doing a really shitty thing to someone whose source of income depends on this stuff.
I know its tough sometimes stepping to a big dealer and saying "you fucked up", but its necessary. I felt [insert dealer here] over-graded a record once and it wasn't easy stepping to them, but we worked it out.
Some of these people have staff who make mistakes.
And in general people make mistakes. It's how they deal with them that matters, not that they made a mistake.
luckily [on the record store tip] i've been dealing with a stand up individual. i couldn't be more than happy. just wish there were some more hot, hot joints here & there, but it just goes with its geographical location of the states and what i'm looking for.
I have gotten a lot of dead stock of private records from dudes who put the records out themselves and had copies sitting in their garages, etc. These records are almost always sealed and sitting shrinkwrapped for 30+ years can cause a record to act funny. Without rhyme or reason, at least 1-4 out of 5 records will be bowl warped from the pressure or even edge warped, but which ones anjd why is the mystery. Sometimes, if they are in a box then it's the middle 10 that are fine because of the pressure or other times its every other record, etc. I can't decode it - BUT, one time i opened a bunch of copies of a record and they were fine, and then i gave a bunch from the same box to cool chris in trade and they were all warped and i felt like crap. Fortunately he understood but it looked pretty bad...it was my bad for sure but too what solution - open every record?
I guess the moral is never trust a sealed record, period.
Oops sorry for the rant, carry on with the putting people on blast.
"So-and-So sold me an incorrectly graded record."
One bad transaction shouldnt mean the dealer is bad all the time.
This is the point that a lot of people miss. We do all make mistakes. I've been on both sides of the grading divide, so if I have an issue with soemone else, I try to work it out with them up-front, and I also want people to do the same with me. We are all human, and I'd like to think that the times when I slipped up have taught me to be more scrutinising when grading from then on. I'd also like to think that I'm reasonable to deal with and I want people to be happy if I'm trading/selling/buying from/with them. I think if you approach it this way, you should be ok.
Buying new records just sucks in 2008. Maybe I just have terrible luck, but half of the times I've bought new records this past year I have gotten a warp and it has been a bitch to deal with.